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Born October 27, 1940 (age 86) ā€¢ Stockton ā€¢ California
Awards And Honors National Medal of Arts (2014) ā€¢ National Book Award (1981)
Notable Works ā€œChina Menā€ ā€¢ ā€œHawaiā€™i One Summerā€ ā€¢ ā€œI Love a Broad Margin to My Lifeā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Fifth Book of Peaceā€ ā€¢ ā€œThe Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghostsā€ ā€¢ ā€œTo Be the Poetā€ ā€¢ ā€œTripmaster Monkey: His Fake Bookā€

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Ha Jin
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Gore Vidal
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Theodore Dreiser
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Sylvia Plath
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Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
John G. Neihardt
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Paul Auster
Paul Auster
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Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
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James Agee
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Mary Austin.
Mary Austin
American writer
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Jessamyn West
American writer
Claude McKay
Claude McKay
American writer
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author

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